Sufian Allaw Explained

Sufian Allaw
Office2:Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
President2:Bashar Assad
Primeminister2:Mohammad Naji Al Otari
Adel Safar
Term Start2:21 February 2006
Term End2:9 February 2013
Predecessor2:Ibrahim Haddad
Successor2:Suleiman Al Abbas
Birth Place:Damascus, Syria
Alma Mater:University of Aleppo
Party:Independent
Children:Five
Residence:Damascus

Sufian Allaw (Arabic: سفيان العلاو; born 1944) was the former oil minister of Syria.

Early life and education

Allaw was born in Abu Kamal in Deir ez-Zor Governorate in 1944. He earned a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from University of Aleppo in 1966.

Career

Allaw worked as an engineer at the Syrian telecommunications establishment from 1966 to 1967. Then he was named as the investment director of the facility at the general establishment of the Euphrates dam from 1967 to 1980. He served as an engineer at the ministry of irrigation from 1980 to 1983 and at the prime ministry for energy affairs from 1983 to 1984. He became deputy electricity minister in 1984 and was in office until 2004. He served as an expert at the state planning commission from 2004 to 2005 and at the energy department at the United Nations' economic and social commission for Western Asia in 2004.

He later was appointed oil minister to the cabinet headed by Mohammad Naji Otari on 11 February 2006.[1] In the April 2011 after the cabinet was reshuffled he retained his post and also served in the cabinet of Adel Safar.[2] His term as oil minister ended on 9 February 2013, being replaced by Suleiman Al Abbas.[3]

Personal life

Allaw is married to Basmaa Allaw with five children.

Notes and References

  1. News: Syria's new government line-up. 28 August 2013. Lebanon Wire. 12 February 2006. Damascus.
  2. News: Assad keeps Moualem as foreign minister in new govt. 2 March 2013. Reuters. 14 April 2011. Amman. dead. https://archive.today/20130416021318/http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/assad-keeps-moualem-as-foreign-minister-in-new-govt. 16 April 2013.
  3. News: Assad reshuffles cabinet, warplanes raid Damascus. 24 February 2013. Khaleej Times. 9 February 2013. Agence France-Presse. Damascus.